Mati wildfire

The sordid revelations about an attempt to cover up officials’ responsibility for the July, 2018, Mati wildfire that claimed 102 lives have stunned public opinion and offend both the memory of the dead.

The government and the main opposition crossed swords over the July, 2018, wildfire which claimed 102 lives in Attica’s seaside resort of Mati.

The plan of reaction to the Mount Hymettus fire demonstrates the capabilities and can serve as a model of reaction to such phenomena which will increase in the future.

Our fire-ravaged fellow citizens who are struggling to survive received nothing from the callous people in power.

Mr. Tsipras handed his opponents over to the mockery of society and into the hands of miserable party propagandists.

From the first hours of last summer’s disastrous wilfire in Mati the weaknesses of crumbling state services, a lack of coordination, and the absence of even rudimentary emergency plans were glaring.

Tsipras said the hirees will be highly experienced firefighters who will be incorporated immediately in the 2019 fire prevention and firefighting plans.

Progress was always a collective affair, and one must not forget this as our country strives to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

From elected officials at the top of the administrative pyramid down to the base there is something clearly rotten in the entire structure of the state.

Twenty local government and state officials have been charged with misdemeanours (because the crimes were attributed to negligence and not malice) connected to the management of the Mati wildfire.

'It is my country. It is my fatherland. I can’t tell you how happy I felt when I heard the PM say, ‘You are from here.'

It is not just society, but mainly the state, which had a duty to support in every way and with all means the victims of the incredible Mati wildfire disaster

A broad majority in a plenary session of the European Parliament approved a resolution to support the fire-ravaged area of Mati, Attica, with EU funding

The prime minister apparently believes that with communications shows, a tragic event will cease being tragic

The open letter to Public Order Minister Olga Gerovasili letter speaks of serious and criminal errors and omissions by the General Secretariat of Civil Protection, the Fire Service, Greek Police, the Attica Prefecture, and municipalities

The PM again promised battles and struggles to avert a restoration of the extreme-right, referring to main opposition New Democracy

The lawsuit targets Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, former public order minister Nikos Toskas, Attica Prefect Rena Dourou, former civil protection chief Ioannis Kapakis and Marathon Mayor Elias Psinakis

Every time governments were in decline and their influence was reduced, they discovered or manufactured internal enemies, and so it is now